superannuate

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To allow to retire on a pension because of age or infirmity.

transitive v. To set aside or discard as old-fashioned or obsolete.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to retire or put out of use due to age

v. to show to be obsolete due to age

v. to retire due to age

v. to become obsolete or antiquated

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To last beyond the year; -- said of annual plants.

transitive v. To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.

transitive v. To give a pension to, on account of old age or other infirmity; to cause to retire from service on a pension.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To impair or disqualify in any way by old age: used chiefly in the past participle: as, a superannuated magistrate.

To set aside or displace as too old; specifically, to allow to retire from service on a pension, on account of old age or infirmity; give a retiring pension to; put on the retired list; pension off: as, to superannuate a seaman.

To last beyond the year.

To become impaired or disabled by length of years; live until weakened or useless.

Superannuated; impaired or disabled through old age; lasting until useless.

Examples

Eternally the ridiculous pretence of being "noble" by family, seems to claim for obscure foreigners some sort of advantage over the plain untitled Englishman; but eternally the travelled Englishman recollects, that, so far as this equivocal "nobility" had been really fenced with privileges, those have been long in a course of superannuation; whilst the counter-vailing advantages for his own native aristocracy are precisely those which time or political revolutions never _can_ superannuate.

He must be aware that the mind of Europethe mind of his own countrya mind which he learns in time to be much more important than his own private mindis a mind which changes, and that this change is a development which abandons nothing en route, which does not superannuate either Shakespeare, or Homer, or the rock drawing of the Magdalenian draughtsmen.

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"In the end, as with the Obama economic team, so the foreign policy team may be pushed in new directions sooner than anyone imagines and, willy-nilly, into some genuinely new thinking about a collapsing world. But not now. Not yet. Like our present financial bailouts, like that extra $30 billion that went into A.I.G. recently, the new Obama plan is superannuated on arrival. It represents graveyard thinking."- Tom Engelhardt, The Great Afghan Bailout, tomdispatch.com, 29 March 2009.